Maharashtra govt to soon conclude SOPs for organ transplant

Mumbai, Aug 16: Taking genuine note of the asserted kidney transplant racket at a main Mumbai doctor’s facility, Maharashtra government has chosen to soon set out an arrangement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that will recognize both organ benefactors and beneficiaries.

Both the givers and beneficiaries will be connected by means of Aadhar card that will keep fake givers from offering their kidneys for fiscal additions, state Health Minister Deepak Sawant told journalists here today.

Mumbai-based L H Hiranandani Hospital’s CEO and four specialists were as of late captured regarding the claimed kidney transplant racket.

“After the Hiranandani (healing facility) racket was busted, I had a meeting with the Chief Minister in which it was chosen to settle SOPs on a need bases. This will approve both benefactors and beneficiaries,” Sawant said.

“There are a few disparities in Organ Transplantation Act-1994 that will be discarded once the SOPs are settled,” he said.

The pastor said that a board, led by him and including a urologist, a nephrologist, individuals from the Medical Council and lawful cell of government alongside some private specialists, will be framed and endowed with the undertaking of presenting their proposals inside 15 days.

“The board of trustees will be framed inside next eight days and will be entrusted to make an arrangement of SOPs in a time of 15 days,” he said.

Sawant said that in future, both benefactors and beneficiaries will be demonstrated a video in which the suggestions, confusions and risks of kidney transplant will be disclosed to them.

“The entire procedure will be video recorded and later an assertion structure will must be filled by both that they comprehend and concur for kidney transplant.

“Likewise, a workshop will be held of specialists required in organ transplants. Numerous a times even specialists don’t think about the right technique for methods. They will be given positioning in view of execution in their preparation,” he said.